@webauthor
You are looking for similiar features like I did. I understand your frustration, but finally, there’s nearly nothing that can’t be done with buddypress – if you have the right skills.
I found a solution concerning different registration/profile fields or types: give it a try
Also, I know there’s a plugin for conditional fields, but I’m not sure if it works: check it out
Support isn’t always that fast – that’s right. But finally most of my questions could be answered in the past.
Me too, I don’t like the way rtmedia presents the display of media. So I tried to manage a kind of playlist for mp3 by using BP xProfile Custom Fields Type.
I see posts that say this is set in SETTINGS – BLOGS but I do not see such an option in my installation.
I think this refers to a multisite installation.
If you run a single site, maybe there’s some bug in the Theme My Login plugin. Disable it an try again. There are other plugins with similar functions.
I thought about that option from time to time. The (your) idea is nice, but I don’t like the groups component an its possibilies. But maybe I should try again.
just wanted to let you know, that I’ve requested some help from the developer of BP Custom xprofile Fields – donmik
I asked him, if it is possible, to use a custom xprofile field (selectbox) to choose the user role and pass it over to wordpress. He gave me this function or – you can say – hint:
function custom_bp_core_signup_user($user_id) {
$user_role = strtolower(xprofile_get_field_data('NAME OF THE XPROFILE FIELD', $user_id));
switch($user_role) {
case "role 1":
$new_role = 'Contributor';
break;
case "role 2":
$new_role = 'Author';
break;
default:
case "role 3":
$new_role = 'Suscriber';
break;
}
wp_update_user(array(
'ID' => $user_id,
'role' => $new_role
));
}
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'custom_bp_core_signup_user', 10, 1);
I put this code in my bp-custom.php, but it does not work. I think there’s something missing. Maybe you have an idea, or @modemlooper?
your logic is right, but I wanted to avoid editing templates. That’s the reason why I use Buddypress xprofiles acl plugin. This makes it possible to choose which role can see and use the different profile tabs. For the music embed I use BP Profile Widgets, the needed input fields are only visible to members with the userrole “band”, all other members can only see the output of the widget – music.
Your last post makes me think about other things that could be done beside those plugins I use, but that goes too far at the moment. As I tried to explain before, the really important thing about passing over the roles to xprofile-fields would be the possibility to show the roles for each member in a searchable and clickable way that always leads the user to the right member-directory.
Maybe you have more ideas, however, thanks for your ideas and help.
if it was that easy I’ve already done it that way. As I said before: I need different user_roles, as bands for example will be able to embed music into their profile, but fans will not, etc.
If I just make a xprofile field I loose those possibility. I need a custom function.
Do you understand, what I mean?
this would be a nice alternative to my own approach, but what about my original idea? Remember you asked the same question in another thread few weeks ago.
If there would be a way to pass over the different user-roles to xprofile-fields there would be no need to create templates. You could output the field in the member-loop and make it searchable. This would be the simplest way. What do you think about it?
As an example: a user registers on my site as “band” (which is a wordpress user role). The selected field would be inserted into a (maybe) hidden xprofile-field also called “profiletype”. This field could be echoed everywhere inside buddypress (clickable, searchable). I know this could be done with only xprofile-fields too, but without the possiblity to use bp-xprofile-acl an the advantage of different user capabilities. Am I clear?
Thanks @henrywright-1
as you probably noticed, I use page-templates (for which I copied members-loop.php and modified it) for the directories “band” and “fan”. So, the code you wrote should also go there or can I use it everywhere I want?
@henrywright-1
this would be one of the possibilities. most important thing is to show the roles in different places in my theme – and make them searchable.
Generally I have to user roles – band, fan. Beside the “normal” members directory I would like to show them in two separate lists. Whenever users are shown in a list, I want to show their role – similar to the author role, where you can link all the posts of an author I wanna show eg. all bands.
You understand, what I mean?
First approaches can be seen here: band profile – if you click on “BAND” you’ll be brought to the band directory.
@dtabraham
I’m looking for the same functionality and would prefer, to pass the user role over to a custom xprofile field to integrate it in buddypress search.
Meanwhile I show the user roles with a function I found in the forums:
If your members should only be able to embed music you can use BP Profile Widgets. If you need the possibility to let them uploud music too, there’s rtmedia. Both plugins are available at wordpress.org
I had the same problem. In my case – and also in yours, I logged into your site and found the setting that is responsible for the wrong display of the sidebar – I found the “bug”:
if you go to Events Manager Setting -> Styling Options, I turned off the “Event/Location admin pages”. Although it says “this options have no effect….” they have. Now your sidebar shows how it should.
Now, that your code makes it possible to show icons in my profile header, is there a way to hide the profile group that helds my input fields? Main reason is, that my youtube and twitter links won’t show in the fieldgroup as a result of the use of a snippet to use oembed-code in my profiles.
Btw: I put this code in my bp-custom.php (leaving the opening <?php and the closing ?> away) and choose a path for the pictures in my rootpath. So I can use it with another theme too.
